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eevcandies:
The following  reply is only a few hours old & the most recent regarding racal....however, if you search for racal you get many hits, as expected from way back when up to recently. What settings do you make so this, the very most recent reply  comes up first in the search (since it is the one having the most recent messages)????


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Re: Racal-Dana Series 9500 5 MHz OCXO, what to expect?
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The racal high-stability time bases are extremely good, if you can find them...there are some postings on how to  mod in one on your own as well.   
wilfred:
The forum search is of limited value for what you want. I don't know how (or if) it can be done. I tend to use Google advanced search when I want to drill down. Just click on "search tools" from a google search if "advanced tools" isn't visible.

I suggest trying it, you can put site:eevblog.com/forum alongside the search terms and you can select one of a number of time periods such as within the last year month week day etc. It won't give you the list of results sorted from most recent first but it will eliminate the stuff which is too old and make finding the relevant results a bit easier.
eevcandies:
That seems extremely crummy that you can't search for the most recent comments on some subject  (ex: Yagi antennas)

Note that if you pick a formum category, the righ column  show exectyl what is needed, except this column , for some reson seems to be missing  when doing a search....is there some adjustment  or checkbox to show it?


beanflying:
SMF has been and remains poor in terms of Search functionality. The Advanced search is 'sort of ok' but it tends not to search ALL content very well. Modifying the CORE of SMF remains a very bad idea. BUT the little mod I suggested to Dave some time to allow for "Search this topic", "Search this Board" and best of all the Google Site search fixes some of this.

If your example of looking for information on Yagi's try going to the https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/ section then "Search this Board" I did something similar recently looking for specific information on Fluke Thermal Cameras the site search was failing at and Google was throwing in non Thermal results.
Brumby:
The SMF search is not very sophisticated at all - and I'm being kind.

I find a Google search using the site: parameter more helpful a lot of the time.
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